User:Chileartists/Joris Millak

Joris Millak is a Dutch DJ and Music Producer in the EDM, Trance, Techno y Big Room genres.

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Joris started playing music when he was 3 years old as his father was a Music Composer and Violinist.

Joris liked to record music, and his favorite toy was a Tandberg Tape Recorder of 1 TB. As a child Joris listened to Jean-Michel Jarre and Vangelis as well as classical music. Still as a young boy at the age of twelve, he bought his first digital synthesizer and began making music. Joris Millak studied violin and piano, becoming internationally known at an older age. At the age of 14 he became interested in studying Sonology and Music Composition with Roderik de Man, Juliusz Luciuk and Krzysztof Penderecki, finishing his studies by handwriting a symphonic poem for symphony orchestra naming it "metamorphosis". But soon, Joris began to produce electronic music, and yet, once he heard the song Café del Mar by the Energy 52, he got influenced to produce House and Trance music.

While perfecting himself in the art of DJing in vinyl, he become a member and producer of Royal Mike and he has participated and won the 538 I-Dance DJ contest in Huizen on [[Radio 538] in November 2001, after this event Joris's carreer started uprising.

His first Trace production he produced in 2000, when he released the (demo) song "Airbase", and in 2002 he signed a contract with the Dutch label Combined Forces and EMI Music. This step made him change his priorities since he put aside his classical music career to focus more as a DJ and producer.

Joris founded his Studio under the name Ageorel New Media together with his mother where he also produced various other DJs and artists composing songs.

He has peprformed in well-known dance venues such as the Eau Dance Theatre, Noord, Double M, the It, Club Revolution in Rotterdam, Wavelab at DJ Cafe Sol in Amsterdam, and at the Respect Festival (2001) among others. He met and played with Armin van Buuren in The Hague's Catacomben and had the privilege of mixing for DancenetFM's Afternoon Grooves radio show performing under the name DJ Royal Mike with whom he formed a duo until 2005. Joris took a break from his career, to dedicate himself again to classical music, but afer the Covid pandemic he resumed again to electronic music.

In 2023, he signed with the English record company Horus Music, releasing a new Track Time of Light and a Remix with Russian producer Lessika including the intro voice of Morgan Freeman under the title Trust in your Inner Voice. He currently publishes several Live Sets under the brand A Spirit of Trance. Joris' mixing style includes EDM, Trance, Techno and Big Room.